The word "tonnage" is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to the weight or cargo capacity of a ship, truck, or other large vehicle. It can also refer to the total weight or quantity of something. Example: The cargo ship had a tonnage of over 10,000 metric tons. Example: The company's annual tonnage of steel production has increased by 20% since last year.
The CNFC under-reported gross tonnage for 44 of its 59 vessels operating in west Africa, the report alleged, a practice which enables companies to evade licensing fees and could potentially mean they were fishing in prohibited areas.
Also, fees are charged on tonnage, no matter what the product.
The coal ports currently proposed, including Abbot Point and new coal terminals proposed at Wiggins Island, Raglan Creek, Balaclava Island, Dudgeon Point, and Cape York, would increase total coal tonnage by more than six-fold, from 156 Mt in 2011 to a capacity of 944 Mt by the end of the decade.
Rotterdam remains the world's biggest port, measured by the tonnage of goods moving through it.
Ministries drove Churchill to distraction with conflicting figures on crucial subjects such as shipping tonnage.
A small tax was levied on tonnage owned, and ordinary taxes on corporate profits were waived or so it seemed.
Its port, in terms of tonnage handled, is smaller than five others in China.
Here are some other facts: the Taiwanese fishing boat was riddled with 59 bullet holes; the Philippine patrol vessel is more than six times the size of the Taiwanese boat in terms of tonnage; and a photograph issued by the Philippine authorities showed that more than ten automatic rifles were used in the shooting.
Because the most alarming dwindling in stocks is in northern waters, from which Spain has been largely excluded, the commission is assuming a reduction of just 13% in the Spanish fleet's tonnage, compared to a cut of 29% for Britain's.In this section Sour Slavs in the slow lane Star struck Under attack Looking ahead.
Whether or not this is true, the world is slowly waking up to the dangers of allowing shipping to operate under the cloak offered by FOCs: no questions asked so long as the shipowner pays registration fees and tonnage taxes.
The best it has come up with is a toothless system of self-audits.There is a further irony: the IMO's limited powers are the result of American meddling with its constitution in the 1950s, which gave voting powers to countries by registered tonnage rather than by goods actually traded.
